A digital tool will allow Costa Ricans to denounce and have access to the environmental conflicts that are registered in the country through the map of Accessible Environmental Justice , which was presented on Thursday by the Ministry of Environment, the Administrative Environmental Court and the Neotropical Foundation. According to Ligia Umaña, president of the […]

Costa Rica is about to launch its first bus with a hydrogen-powered electric engine, a prototype that could open the doors to a clean transportation system that stops hydrocarbon imports. The bus developed by the Ad Astra Rocket Company in Liberia, 220 kilometers northwest of San José, has a hydrogen-powered electric engine stored in a […]

The first meeting of the Free Trade Commission between Costa Rica and Peru was held this Thursday, headed by Vice Minister of Foreign Trade of Peru, Edgar Vásquez, and Vice Minister of Foreign Trade of Costa Rica, Jhon Fonseca. The objective of the meeting was to advance adequately in the implementation of the treaty and […]

A significant increase in the number of people with work and a stable unemployment rate are the main findings of the Continuous Employment Survey (ECE), carried out by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC). During the first three months of 2017 there is an increase of 68 thousand employed people, compared to the […]

An Italian woman living in New York was sentenced to seven years in prison for being part of a drug trafficking network that imported cocaine from Costa Rica. Eleonora Gigliotti, co-owner of a pizzeria in the Queens neighborhood, was sentenced by the Federal Court of the Eastern District of New York on Wednesday. Her husband […]

On Thursday, the Ministry of Health called on the population not to lower their guard in the face of the latent threat of the zika virus. The arrival of rains should alert people to eliminate potential breeding sites, in order to reduce the risk of spreading the mosquito that transmits dengue, zika and chikunguña. It […]